Before Wendy Williams became a fixture on daytime television with her syndicated gossipy talker she was airing out celebrities on the radio. She's made plenty of enemies, but "telling it like it is" has proved good for business. The sixth season of her talk show opened with its highest ratings and is renewed through 2017 (it appears on channels 11 and 13 in Los Angeles). When she's not dishing on Lindsay Lohan, the Kardashians or the "Housewives," Williams, 50, keeps her plate full with myriad projects — books, stand-up comedy, producing — outside her guilty-pleasure talker.

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NCIS While traveling for the holidays,...

As the title would suggest, the point of the six-part documentary "Makers: Women Who Make America" is to celebrate outstanding work by women in all areas of society, to remind us of the obstacles they have faced before being allowed to do it, and to re-...

"Makers," an AOL-backed initiative to chronicle women's strides in traditionally male-dominated fields, kicks off with a decidedly entertainment-industry flavor, with the first two hours devoted to "Women in Comedy" and "Women in Hollywood." Those broad...

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The Amazing Race The unscripted competition series begins its 25th season in New York's Times Square with 11 new teams vying for the $1-million prize at the end of an around-the-globe contest. Phil Keoghan returns as host. 8 p.m. CBS
Shark Tank The inventive series returns with back-to-back...

ABC's latest makeover of "The View" is now complete: actress Rosie Perez and political analyst Nicolle Wallace will join the morning talk show as co-hosts, it was announced Wednesday.
They will join Whoopi Goldberg, the only co-host to survive the show's latest round of housecleaning, as well as Rosie O'Donnell, who is returning to the program after a seven-year absence, when "The View" launches its 18th season Sept. 15.
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Love her or hate her, you have to admit that Rosie O'Donnell has a way with ratings for "The View."
The sharp-tongued comic returned to ABC's daytime chatfest for Monday's season opener after an absence of seven years.
The result? An average of 3.9 million total viewers tuned in, according to Nielsen.
That was "The View's" best season opener since 2006 - which, not coincidentally, was the last time O'Donnell took a chair as cohost on the morning show. She lasted all of one contentious, newsmaking...

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The Biggest Loser Former athletes, including Olympians and professional football players, try to get back in shape and change their lives as the weight loss series returns for a new season. 8 p.m. NBC
The Quest The fantasy-reality competition series with a two-...

Call it "Extreme Makeover: Talk Show Edition."
When "The View" returns to the air on Sept. 15, it will have a new logo, set and studio, ABC announced Thursday.
The long-running ABC talk show is moving from the Manhattan studio where it's been produced for the last 17 years into a space around the corner at the ABC Broadcast Center that most recently housed Katie Couric's daytime talk show. The new set, which is currently under construction, has been designed in the round. It will also include an...

Why is Jenny McCarthy leaving "The View"? Turns out, she doesn't fit in.
The talk show panelist answered that question during a sit-down interview on "The Howard Stern Show" on Monday.
McCarthy had been on "The View" for about a year following the exits of conservative Elisabeth Hasselbeck and liberal Joy Behar. She said it was her "best year ever," adding that it was "rewarding" and "intriguing" to work with iconic journalist Barbara Walters, who helped create the show when it premiered in 1997...